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Malaysian prime minister made that announcement. >> it is, therefore, with deep sadness and regret that i must inform you that according to this new data, flight mh 370 ended in the southern indian ocean. >> such difficult news for the families, they've been waiting, hoping beyond hope somehow their loved ones would be alive, but we're hearing today from the malaysian prime minister he does, indeed, believe and the air investigation branch, a british group, this new, never-been-used before information that this analysis concluding this flight indeed went down in the indian ocean. i want to tak...

And work out the distance and clearly has now gone that one stage further and worked out exactly where that plane would have been. the waib, the air accident investigation branch, the u.k. equivalent of the ntsb, they are enormously experienced. >> the amount of data they must have been going through for the last two weeks is extraordinary. >> not only the data, huge amount but the integrity of it. they know the moment they say, this is what we say happened, we have just seen. the south indian ocean and suddenly, 26 ships and 50 odd planes move halfway around the world. >> based on what they a...

Simmons live in kuala lumpur. this is not the information they wanted to hear. >> reporter: absolutely. it really isn't, bettly. we just witnessed some really heartbreaking scenes behind me here. earlier, while the prime minister was speaking, a small group of the families were here to watch his statement on the national television. they just sat stoney faced, quietly listening to what he had to say. remember, that what they were listening to is the prime minister, one of the families, their son was onboard, 29-year-old son, a son with a child and a wife, so they had to listen to that. betty, ...

There has been so much focus on this area about 1500 miles southwest of perth. >> now, the sad news this morning what the inmarsat people have done is they have gone back to those pings. they have interrogated the wattage transmission from the planes. they have looked at the angles. they have worked out the differences, the aaip, the air accident investigation branch of the uk, the british equivalent of the ntsb, enormously experienced and concluding not only the southern corridor but the fuel on board from the last known position puts it southwest of perth, a remote location, no landing strip...

With mr-sat that the process that they used, even though never been done before, if they believe this to be true, that is a very high level of credibility, and i was very interested to hear the prime minister refer to aaib, because it really underpinned the quality and the strength of the information. >> he also said that according to this data, the flight ended in the southern indian ocean, which is pretty much where this search has been centered around, and today we're getting new information that an australian plane has spotted an orange rectangular object and grayer/green circular object. ...